Chapter 7 Section VII

The weather forecast said that there will be heavy snow in Tokyo during this time, very heavy snow!But in the end, I didn't see any snowflakes.It's a really good thing for me though, because I had a pretty miserable experience a few years ago on a snowy day.I was going to perform at a place near Tokyo that night, and I had lunch at home. On days when there are performances, eating is a hassle, and everyone has worked so hard for it.If I eat just before the performance, because my stomach digests four times faster than others, my brain's attention is all involved there. Then there is no way to fully concentrate on the lines.So I always finish my meal early before the show.But if you eat too early, you will be too hungry during the performance, which is not good for your health.But in any case, I don't want to spend too much time and energy on digestion.I am not a neurotic person. Although I have taken some expedient measures in this matter, I will still pay attention to propriety.

Take for example that for a while I was in Marine Detroit's play "Marine," and I was backstage except for the first and second acts, until the play ended with her famous concert, I never leave the stage for a moment.Except for a 15-minute break, I was on stage the whole time.My lines reached two thousand lines.Another way to count lines is to see how many sentences there are.In the play "Marini," there are far more monologues in the form of questions and answers and long interviews than dialogues.In the script, Marini's lines are only 2,000 lines, and my script is B5 in size.So during the two hours of the performance, I really couldn't be distracted for a second.

Let’s talk about the heavy snow day when I suffered miserably.That day, the snow started to fall from the night before, and Tokyo had already accumulated a lot of snow.After lunch, I wanted to eat an apple. The apple was given to me in a cardboard box on the small balcony of my apartment.I call that balcony the "South Pole" and things that need to be refrigerated are on the balcony.After opening the iron door, the carton was not in front of him, but on the other side.The snow was still falling, and it was very cold, so I ran over quickly, reached into the carton and took out the apples.Apple is my favorite "Fuji", and in the middle of the apple you can see three big characters "Japan One". "Hey, it's the number one in Japan!"

I held an apple in each hand and looked at it with admiration.This is probably because before the apple turned red, the words "Japan One" were pasted in the middle of the apple. When the words were removed later, the parts around the words turned red, but the part where the words were located was still white. In this way, the word "Japan One" clearly stayed. I took the apple and wanted to see how much snow was falling, so I looked out.That's when I realized I could barely see the sky from there.I hadn't seen the sky from "Antarctica" until then.The design of this apartment is quite characteristic. There is a large concrete beam above the balcony. In order to prevent pigeons from flying in, a barbed wire fence stretches high on the balcony railing. There is only about 30 meters from the concrete beam and the fence. The sky can only be seen through the gap of centimeters.

I tilted my body and turned my head to look at the sky, but I still couldn't see how big the snow was.I tilted my body even more, thinking that I should see clearly no matter what.At that time, I was really confused. I could go back to the room and see the sky easily from the window, but I had to look through the narrow gap.At that time I wanted to see the sky directly.There is one caveat to the concrete floor of this "South Pole" that I've spotted before.There is an iron railing about 20 centimeters from the floor, which was originally used as a barrier to separate the next room in case of fire.This iron railing protrudes there, like the end of a marathon.So I have been paying attention to this place. When I took the apple just now, I jumped over the iron railing first with a "boom--".But when I leaned my body in a narrow place and struggled to see the snow, I got close to the iron railing unknowingly.I finally saw the gray sky and snowflakes, and knew that the snow was really heavy, so I walked into the house thinking "ah, it's so cold, so cold".

When I write this, you may feel that my actions are very slow. In fact, the series of activities just now only took about 5 seconds in total.Come out of the room, come to the "South Pole", step over the iron railing and take out the apple. "Wow, Japan's No. 1!" "How's the snow falling?" "Oh, it's still falling! It's cold, it's cold! Come inside!" A total of 5 seconds during this period.But at the moment when I was about to run back to the room, my feet were already close to the iron railing. When I suddenly raised my legs to run, my feet went under the iron railing, and there was a sound of "ah——" , My body flew up sideways, and my face hit the concrete and iron gate heavily.

"Boom!" There was a loud bang.At this time, I didn't feel "so painful", and the apples in my two hands rolled into the room along the open door.My face hit something before my hands hit the ground.As I tried to get up, I saw blood splattering onto the concrete floor. "Ah, I can still see." I was really calm.Then I stood up and hurried to the refrigerator.This is because I was reminded of an incident from decades ago. That's what Ms. Sadako Sawamura told me.I have always called Ms. Sawamura "Mom".That time my mother played a dead person in a TV series, and when she was lying there filming, suddenly the fluorescent light from the ceiling in the set fell down and hit my mother in the face.There was a commotion at the shooting site, and everyone asked in one go: "Are you okay?" Mom shouted: "Stop screaming, give me ice! Give me ice quickly! If you don't apply cold compresses earlier, if your face is swollen, you will die today." I can't shoot anymore! Hurry up and get the ice!"

Since my father is still waiting for my mother at home, if I can't shoot today, I have to reshoot this scene in another day, which my mother doesn't want to do.Anyway, try to finish shooting today.The ice was delivered to my mother, who wrapped the ice cubes in a wet towel and put a cold compress on the cheek that was hit.The cheeks were not swollen, the TV series continued to be filmed, and my mother went back to the home where my father was waiting for her.I heard this from my mother decades ago, but I suddenly remembered it. "There will be a stage performance at night, and it will be terrible if my face is swollen!" Maybe this thought stimulated Shun Yuyu's heart?/p>

I filled the plastic bag with water, put ice cubes in it, and hurriedly grabbed a dirty thing that looked like a rag, wrapped it in the ice bag, and put it on my face for a cold compress.I haven't had time to look in the mirror so I don't know where it hurts, but I'm sure it's on the face.Then I ran into the bathroom and looked in the mirror seriously.The cut above the corner of the right eye was deep, as if blood had flowed from there.There was also blood on the cheekbone under the right eye, but I could not wipe it off.After a closer look, I found that it looked like blood, but the skin was actually scratched, and the meat under the skin was exposed two and a half centimeters away.The upper skin was crumbling, and I was about to take it off, but when I unfolded the skin, it just covered the red triangular flesh, "Well, let's do this!" Luckily, because I later learned that such wounds are called "dog ears".In addition, the place where my lips are above the nose and below the nose is also broken.I thought it was worse, but now that there was nothing serious, I thought, how about going to the theater?But because the blood was still coming out, I called the doctor who usually goes for a health check.The doctor was an internist. I told the doctor about the situation, and I said seriously:

"I got hurt at the 'Antarctic.'" The doctor's surprised voice came from the phone: "Injured in Antarctica?!" So I explained, and finally said: "It's nothing serious, so it's okay?" The doctor hurriedly said: "No, no, no, the broken place must be sewn up." "Sew?" For the first time in my life, I was so taken aback I almost yelled.The doctor reminded me again: "Yes. The surgeon is not here today, please go to a hospital with surgery immediately. Please go there!" I called the office and explained the ins and outs of the matter.The office immediately contacted a familiar emergency hospital for me, and after completing the procedures, I can go there immediately.My manager came to pick me up and take me to the hospital.I changed my clothes and looked around the room, trying to see where the apple rolled to, but there was nowhere, as if it had disappeared.I was a little bit reconciled, and I wanted to eat it, which is really a pity.Afterwards I found that one apple had rolled from under the sofa to the pedals of the piano, and the other rolled under a chair for no apparent reason.Because I wanted to eat some fruit after a meal, this incident was caused, so I still wanted to eat something.After I went to the hospital, I couldn’t eat anything for a while, so I searched around, picked up a big piece of candy and put it in my mouth, when the manager came.Seeing her push the door open, I said:

"Sorry to make you worry." But I stuffed a big piece of candy in my mouth, and what I said became: "I'm sorry, I'm worried." The manager's eyes are originally big, and when he was surprised, his eyes seemed to bulge out.After hearing what I said, her eyes seemed to really fall out, and she asked with a worried face: "Have you already spoken like this?" The manager's voice was already crying.At that time, she must have thought in her heart: "If this is the case, tonight's show will not be able to be performed." I was completely surprised that this would happen, so I quickly took the candy out of my mouth and said, "It's okay, I can talk.” Afterwards, when I told my friends about it, they said I was “what a nonchalant person.”I think so myself. Anyway, that's how we went to the hospital.Surprisingly, the emergency hospital in the snowy day was so crowded with grandpas and grandma that there was almost no room left.Everyone seems to have fallen and hurt themselves.I was immediately taken to the radiology room while I applied a dirty rag to my face.I was very surprised, but it is true that there is a possibility of fracture in my situation.There is nothing more humiliating than taking an X-ray on such an occasion.Since there seemed to be no X-ray machine for taking facial photos, I stood under the bed used for gastrointestinal X-rays, turned my face down, and put on a "sorry" pose, and took a photo.Then the staff told me again: "Okay, hold your breath." I put my face on the machine again.Then I stood still, and this time I put my right ear on the machine and took a side view, which seemed to say: "I did something wrong." : "Never do it again." The surgeon is Mr. Dean, he is a bold and humorous person.He had studied for a long time in the United States how to deal with injuries in such accidents and was an authority on it.The husband picked up the X-ray film, looked at it against the light, and said: "Well, it's okay! No broken bones." And said: "If you're unlucky and hit the nose, you might die." I was horrified. If I died in the "Antarctic", the apple in my hand would have flown to nowhere. People would not know why I died in such a place, and they would say: "She was originally What a weirdo!" Let's just let it go.Thinking about it this way, there must be many people who are still misunderstood after they die.Mr. went on to say: "You are really lucky! If you hit the eye a little bit, it would be terrible. People can still protect themselves in an instant." I learned that I was so lucky, and I was also happy. In addition, the X-ray of my face that my husband saw also aroused my interest.I always thought I had high cheekbones and an oddly shaped skull, but when I saw a frontal photo of my head, it turned out to be a mesmerizing photo of a slender, beautiful face.As for the side shot, I thought the back of my head was flat, but it's actually a nice round shape.I looked at this photo fascinatedly and asked Mr. "Sir, is such a beautiful hairstyle really mine? Could it be a mistake with someone else's?" Mr. said: "This is yours. You are the only one who took such an X-ray today." I was so excited to see how beautiful the X-ray of my head was, I held the two pictures in my hand and looked at them again and again.Finally, the husband told the nurse: "Put the photo away." The nurse took the photo away.The husband started to look at my wounds, the deep wound above my eye had to be stitched.What surprised me was the wound on the cheekbone where the skin almost fell off. The gentleman stared at the wound and said: "Here is the most troublesome. This kind of wound is called 'dog ear', and the skin falls off in a triangular shape like a dog's ear. This kind of wound is generally difficult to recover, and most of them will leave scars. It is really painful to hurt the face. Trouble." Mr. said again: "However, the 'dog ear' skin is still on, which is very good. If the skin is gone, it's not good." I wanted to say, "At first I thought this piece of skin was in the way, and I wanted to remove it." But I didn't say it. The husband seemed to be very worried about the "dog ears", turned over and covered that piece of skin several times, and finally said with some regret: "Put it on top today and stick it with trauma plaster to see how it goes. If it doesn't work, you can only take a piece of skin from another place and transplant it. But in that case, most of them will leave scars , it is really troublesome." Only then did I deeply feel that I had indeed done a stupid thing.I asked Mr. "Take a piece of skin from another place, so where do you get it?" Mr. replied: "Well, maybe it's on the butt." I couldn't help but laugh out loud. I always thought it was funny to transplant the skin from my buttocks to my face.Seeing me smile, Mr. said kindly: "I have no choice but to take the skin from the butt. Since you are an actor, it's better not to leave any scars." I hurriedly said: "It's all right, sir, I don't work on my face." Mr. said: "Why do you say that? Please don't say that, let's try. The wound under the nose needs to be stitched up." Once again, I thought in my heart: "Need to sew!" Now we use a microscope to observe the wound while suturing.I lay down on the bed and a young doctor came and put what looked like a microscope next to my face.The doctor was also a bit strange. When he was stitching up the wound above my eye, the doctor said: "It's better to close your eyes when you sleep." I was surprised and asked: "It's good to close your eyes when you sleep—is there a time when you don't close your eyes?" "If the seams are a little thicker, the eyes won't be able to close. If the seams are thinner, it's fine." "Then please sew a little thinner for me. It is strange to sleep with one eye open." The husband said "OK, then sew a little thinner", and began to sew.Because of the injection of anesthetic, I didn't feel any pain. With my eyes closed, I could hear the sound of scissors cutting threads or something from time to time, which felt very strange. The young doctor was very interesting. While he was sewing the wound under my nose, he said: "It's rare for adults to sew up here, usually elementary school students. It's really rare. Adults can also get hurt in this place." .” But the doctor still sewed up my wound very seriously, a total of 14 years. "Don't apply cold compresses anymore, it may be swollen for a while tonight, you have to be mentally prepared." I saw the doctor's face, this is a young and handsome doctor, dressed in white, very harmonious. Because I told Mr. Dean that there will be a performance in the evening, Mr. put a tape with the same color as the skin on the bandage, and told me: "When you put makeup on it, please don't take off the bandage, and don't directly touch the bandage. Put makeup on it." And so the treatment was all over.Bandages and tape over the eyes, bandages and tape over the cheeks, bandages and tape under the nose.And it might swell.Is it possible to perform tonight's play like this? The play I played that day was called Ninochka.After rushing to the theater, I hurriedly started to put on makeup, and briefly explained the situation to the actors who performed together.Stage play is different from shooting movies and TV series, and it may be possible to muddle through and not be seen by others.It's finally opening, and it's business as usual. Ninochka was once made into a film by Greda Golber, but it first appeared on Broadway.As a stage play, it is full of comedy and strong irony, very funny.At the end of the performance, the female producer rushed over and asked: "I heard that your face is injured. Is it true? You can't see it at all in the audience. It's amazing! You can keep your face from swelling with mental strength!" No matter how capable I am, I can't rely on my mental strength to keep my face from swollen! This is all thanks to Sawamura's mother, and I am very grateful in my heart.Indeed, there was no swelling on the face at all.The bandages and tapes are on the face, and people may be able to see that it is a little bulging out, but my face is a bit curved, and it may not be really noticeable.If it's a beautiful actress with an oval face, it will definitely be seen.Two days later, I followed the doctor's orders and came to the hospital again.I don't know what happened to the "dog ears"?The doctor took off the bandage and said happily: "Hmm, good! Maybe there's no need to move the skin from the butt here!" I am also happy. The stitches will be removed in a week.I took off the wound plaster and took a closer look. I couldn't help being surprised. The top of my eye looked like a stitched wound in a cartoon, and the black suture was visible like a zipper.As a result, the recovery ability of the "dog ear" surprised the doctors, and it did not leave any scars, and it grew very flat.The gash above the eye was deep, but soon faded away.When you sleep at night, you can also close your eyes. After this incident, once I was watching TV, I saw an actor on the show who had been hit by a car, and he said: "A few stitches were stitched under the nose, and I asked the doctor to make the stitches as thin as possible. The thinner the better." I couldn't help laughing after hearing this.It seems that I am really a confused person!Even if she trusts the doctor, it seems that an actress should express her concern about her appearance or something! As I write this, I look in the mirror to see how my old wound is doing now.Eye injuries and "dog ears" "There are no traces at all. Only the wound under the nose and above the lips can still be seen a little according to the intensity of the light. But think about it, when you get older, the wrinkles around the lips After I came out, I probably couldn’t see it. I accidentally told the person who followed me about this idea, and she immediately lay down on the table. I thought she was crying, but I didn’t expect her to be smiling: "Women are all for their faces I have racked my brains to reduce wrinkles. I have never heard of people like you. "After she finished speaking, she laughed again. The reason why I thought of writing about the "dog ears" incident is because this is the first time I have suffered such a serious injury.It's kind of weird to think that I've been running around since I was a kid and never got hurt. There are too many naughty things to talk about in those days. For example, once I was walking on the small road behind the auditorium of the elementary school, and suddenly saw a newspaper spread on the road. "Hey? A newspaper!" I ran forward with all my strength, and jumped right in the middle of the newspaper, but who knew it was the opening of the toilet. newspaper, so I fell into the toilet. Another time was on the way home from school. When I was walking home quickly, I found a large pile of sand on the side of the road. "It's not at the seaside, but there is such a large pile of sand!" I was so excited that I jumped towards the sand pile.Who knew it was actually a pile of plaster, just covered with a layer of sand.So I fell into the plaster pile with a "thump" up to my chest, and couldn't pull it out on my own.Whether it was the shoe bag, the shoes, or the schoolbag I was carrying in my hand, they were all the same color as the bronze statue.Until my mother found me when she came out to pick me up in the evening, I just stood there in the sticky plaster, with only one head exposed. When we were evacuated to Aomori Prefecture during the war, I lost my commuter pass because there were no train tickets sold at that time, so I had to walk along the railway line to school alone.One day, a train came suddenly from the corner opposite the rock in front of me. It was a temporary freight car, which was beyond my expectation.At that time, I was walking on the sleepers on the iron bridge, and the river was under the bridge.At that time, the Northeast Railway was still single-track, and there was no way to go back, forth, left, and right for a while.In desperation, I got through the gap between the sleepers and hung on the sleepers with my arms.Below is the rushing river, and trucks pass by. I count how many carriages there are, anyway, it is a very, very long train.My arms could barely hold on.In order not to let my only pair of clogs fall into the river, I desperately hooked the clogs with my toes.When the train finally passed, I climbed back onto the bridge, using my backpack as a lever.It was a long time later that I discovered that the same scene was described in Yuzo Yamamoto's article "Stones by the Road". There are many more things like the ones mentioned above, which are really too numerous to enumerate, but I was not injured once. This is of course relatively lucky, and it may also be because of my better instantaneous judgment.I have a keen sense of what to do and use my imagination to act. But when I grew up, I decided not to jump around like I did when I was a child.One of the reasons is that a boy I used to date said: "I always feel that you will fall into a big hole and die." Is it right there? I am often laughed at because of this.When the elevator door opens, it will be terrible if the elevator has no floor.The footings of the studios of theaters and TV stations are not very stable, and they are relatively dark. Of course, in the countries I visited on behalf of UNICEF, there are places where there are endless civil wars, landmines may be planted in some places, guerrillas may appear in some places, and there are barren mountains or rough and muddy places, what kind of places Both.So, I follow the advice of the locals, no matter what I see, I will never jump on it with a "wow". However, thanks to the love of running and jumping when I was a child, even if I went to a poor rural area and crossed the river, only a bamboo was built on the river as a bridge, I could immediately judge whether I could get through, and took off my shoes easily He walked over easily.There was a reporter who was a young man across the river and said: "I'm sorry, I'm a little scared and dare not go over." I sympathized with him, probably because he didn't like to run around when he was a child. So, since I am so careful now, what happened to the "dog ears" incident?If someone asks me that, I It can only be said that it was made like that because of the heavy snow.So it's really nice that it hasn't snowed in Tokyo for a while.